Tuesday, May 5, 2015

GREAT SMALL WORKS presents
a Memorial Day Spaghetti DinnerMonday, May 25th
at Teatro SEA in lower Manhattan.Join us with

PUPPETS, AND REJOICING IN SYSTEMIC CRITIQUE

GREAT SMALL WORKS presents new scenes in their developing work, Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, based on the life and work
of Zuni Maud and Yosl Cutler and their 1930s Yiddish-language company, Modicut
Puppet Theater.

Created and performed by
John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine and Roberto Rossi.

The Vagabond Puppeteers: Puppetry and Politics in
1939, a film by anthropologist and
Rhode Island School of Design professor Winnie Lambrecht.

The film shows
political puppet theater performed one summer among dairy farmers in upstate
New York by Pete Seeger, Jerry Oberwager, Mary Wallace and Harriet Holtzman,
all in their early 20’s at the time.

We
are a punk band that plays Yiddish anarchist and bundist songs (and some other
Yiddish radical tunes) - the soundtrack to strikes, uprisings, assassinations,
and revolutionary movements from Odessa and Vilna to New York and Galveston to
Buenos Aires and Havana. We sing these songs because they're bad-ass,
because we believe in them and in the movements that made them possible,
because we are part of those movements.

Monday, May 25, 7:30 PM

Teatro SEA, at El Clemente

107 Suffolk Street, New York,
NY

Info:718-840-2823

Tickets:$15 (no one turned away for lack of
funds)

Great Small Works gratefully acknowledges support
for Spaghetti Dinners from: NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NY State
Council on the Arts, the Doctorow Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, and the
Puppet Slam Network.Thank you!